The information-seeking problems of English high schoolers responding to academic information need

Library Review

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 276-288

  Shenton, Andrew K ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Information literacy; Information retrieval; Qualitative research; Schools; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 43149102726     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530810868715     Document Type: Article

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